like i said to mr. brady, in my congressional district, 700,000 people, the suburbs of denver, it is maybe 15 people but they are 15 people who passed away. they are not here very these are dead millionaire's and dead billionaires' we're talking about. mr. crowley and i would ask my friend mr. wiener who the lady is? >> yes, i do, sarah. >> for the record, this is leon the helmsley before she passed away. that is her dog troubled who inherited $12 million. trouble would be affected by this bill, by the amendment that mr. pomeroy suggested. we've got bills to pay but apparently trouble does not want to be part of paying those bills. we've got a lot of work to do in this country. we have a very big issue in front of us. there is a real philosophical debate. there are points where it goes beyond the debate and it is pretty clear. for me, going back pomeroy issue, the inheritance tax, trouble would not have to pay on the first $3.5 million. what ever gender he is, he would have to pay tax on the balance. i think

mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. a gun is pointed at the head of our taxpayers and it will go off january 1 unless congress acts. if we let that gun go off it's going to hurt families who are struggling to make ends meet. it's going to hurt small businesses trying to survive this recession. it's going to hurt seniors, double the taxes, almost triple the taxes on the dividends that they need to live month to month and day to day. it's going to hurt businesses trying to track capital and it's going to revive the death tax, an immoral tax where you work your whole life to build up your nest egg, your small business, your family-owned farm and when you die, uncle sam swoops in and taking more than half, more than half of everything you've earned. all that haps if congress refuses to act -- happens if congress refuses to act. some are here to say, no, let's not change that death tax. let's raise that death tax. last night on my facebook page, i got a posting from tammie fisher of east texas. her

levin, the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: madam speaker, first i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. levin: madam speaker, i now yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: this is really a vital bill. and i bring it to the floor in a bipartisan spirit to move and to make sure that all of the important pieces of this vital legislation, all of them become law. this bill continues the essential trade adjustment assistance program that we expanded in 2009. importantly, these reforms were authored on a bipartisan, bicameral basis by mr. rangel and myself, mr. camp, senators bachus and grassley. let me say a few words about this. since the reforms were implemented in 2009, more than 155,000 additional trade impacted workers who might not have been certified under the former program,

mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. why are we playing these political games? we have 15 million people out of work. we have families, small businesses, seniors, job creators facing a near $4 trillion tax bomb that will go off on january 1. and here we are playing political games. this bill's dead on arrival in the senate. everyone knows it. we're wasting time today. worse than that, it undercuts the president's own sincere efforts to work with dave camp, the ranking member of the ways and means committee, senate republican, senate and house democrats to actually come up with a real solution to solve this problem. instead, this body is rushing forward with more political theater. my question is, wasn't september the time to play political games? right now with the clock ticking, shouldn't we be all about solutions? let's talk about two myths. democrats say let's pass this, it will help jump-start the economy, it will do just the opposite. one, the people they hit, these consumers hold one of eve

mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. why are we playinghese political games? we have 15 million people out of work. we have families, small businesses, seniors, job creators facing a near $4 trillion tax bomb that will go off on january 1. and here we are playing political games. this bill's dead on arrival in the senate. everyone knows it. we're wasting time today. worse than that, it undercuts the president's own sincere efforts to work with dave camp, the ranking member of the ways and means committee, senate republican, senate and house democrats to actually come up with a real solution to solve this problem. instead, this body is rushing forward with more political theater. my question is, wasn't september the time to play political games? right now with the clock ticking, shouldn't we be all about solutions? let's talk about two myths. democrats say let's pass this, it will help jump-start the economy, it will do just the opposite. one, the people they hit, these consumers hold one of every

mr. brady thank you, mr. speaker. why are we playing these political games? we have 15 million people out of work. we have families, small businesses, seniors, job creators facing a near $4 trillion tax bomb that will go off on january 1. and here we are playing political games. this bill's dead on arrival in the senate. everyone knows it. we're wasting time today. worse than that, it undercuts the president's own sincere efforts to work with dave camp, the ranking member of the ways and means committee, senate republican, senate and house democrats to actually come up with a real solution to solve this problem. instead, this body is rushing forward with more political theater. my question is, wasn't september the time to play political games? right now with the clock ticking, shouldn't we be all about solutions? let's talk about two myths. democrats say let's pass this, it will help jump-start the economy, it will do just the opposite. one, the people they hit, these consumers hold one of ever

mr. brady is recognized. >> thank you. let the record now that every person under 28 in the room sat up straight after senator klobuchar talked about social security reform. it's been helpful helpful for the deficit commission as life expectancy grows over decades and decades, social security age will have to be adjusted at some point. you are talking 30 or 40 years in that process. construction manufacturing, we were told with a stimulus bill that we would see the most job gains in manufacturing and construction. but my understanding from your remarks is that manufacturing has been flat since the spring and may. construction employment has also changed a little, as well mining unemployment up a little bit construction manufacturing -- what happened to all those shovel-ready jobs? >> well, i can just tell you what the trends were and i think you fairly characterized the terms in the payroll jobs. >> energy, obviously a key part of our economy. early this year it revealed weaknesses in spill capacity but a drilling moratori

chairman of the committee of house administration, the gentleman from pennsylvania, my good friend mr. brady, for his support and leadership in bringing this legislation and also my good friend from california, mr. lungren, for his support. and with the help of chairman brady and the staff, h.r. 5493 now includes language making it favorable to have this bill brought now before the floor for consideration as it was approved by the committee. and i want to especially thank my good friend and colleague and the distinguished lady from the district of columbia for her willingness to work with us on this important bill and i want to acknowledge the joint efforts that we have made in advocating the importance of this bill for our five u.s. territories and especially also for the district of columbia. which is basically to provide and furnish to the architect of the capitol a statue of citizens to be placed in the national statuary hall in the same manner of statues now honoring citizens of the states. of the several states. the national statuary hall holds grand display of statues to commemorate t

mr. bradyspeaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for to minutes. mr. brady: i support the goals that the brave men and women who acted as first responders are fairly treated and compensated. i rise today to oppose the troubling provision, the majority to pay for this bill. this would impose a 2% tax on goods from foreign countries from firms that are not parties to certain treaties or international agreement. sounds complicated, but some analysts suggest that majority of the tax, at least 2/3 would be raised by taxing contracts that support american troops stationed in the afghan and iraqi theaters. even more incredible, this tax could apply to american companies that are providing goods and services to our troops through local subsidiaries. levying taxes on companies that support american troops are illogical. there is no reason that other countries wouldn't copy this tax and impose it on our u.s. companies that are competing to sell goods and services overseas. this would hurt our u.

theater i was quoting the very thoughtful ranking member of the trade subcommittee of ways and means, mr. brady, who came before us in the rules committee and said this is political theater. why? there are reports today that the negotiators from the white house and both houses of congress have come to an agreement that we are going to ensure that we don't increase taxes on any americans for at least two years. those are the reports that we have that have come out. so we're here on the house floor denying this institution an opportunity to vote on a proposal like that. we in the rules committee, mr. speaker, simply said, gosh, since 31 democrats have signed a letter saying that they believe it would be a mistake to increase taxes on any americans, that the house should have a chance to vote on that. now, i offered that proposal upstairs last night in the rules committee. party line vote, democrats oh, no, we're not going to allow what would clearly be a majority of the house, i believe if we were to actually have a house, to work its will. we're going to resort to ledger domain, not allowing a m

mr. brady? >> everyone in the room under 28 sat up straight. it has been helpful for the deficit commission. but the social security age will have to be adjusted at some point. construction and manufacturing are part of our economy. the most jobs were in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing has been flat since the spring in may. construction employment has also changed little. mining employment up little. construction manufacturing is not what happened to all of those shovel-ready jobs. >> i can only tell you what the trends were. you correctly summarized the payroll trends. >> there were weaknesses in capacity. the drilling moratorium was put in place hastily. we have shallow water exploration and drilling moratoriums that continue because permits have not been granted to get those workers back to work. drilling permits are not being granted. they are continuing to lose energy jobs. was around 2000 jobs. >> i should have something a little more detailed. in mining, we gained about 4000 jobs overall. mining of all sorts, oil and gas ex

. >> woodruff: a final short comment from mr. brady. >> you made the point for me, judy.ll and allow taxes to go up, damage our families, damage our small businesses, we're going to fight hard against it. >> woodruff: we hear you and we will leave it there for now. representative brady, representative pomeroy. >> thank you.çç >> ifill: next, new intelligence reports on the war in afghanistan and to margaret warner. >> warner: tomorrow, the white house presents its long-awaited review of how much progress has been made in the afghan war since the president's surge of u.s. forces there. today, the "new york times" and "los angeles times" reported on two classified national intelligence assessments-- one of afghanistan, one on pakistan that have gone into that review. the nie's represent the collective view of 16 u.s. intelligence agencies. they were said to offer a gloomy view of the state of play, especially when it comesto pakistan's unwillingness to take out afghan militant sanctuaries on its territory. for more, we go to elisabeth bumiller, a pentagon correspondent fo

mr. brady? >> everyone in the room under 28 sat up straight.rity age will have to be adjusted at some point. construction and manufacturing are part of our economy. the most jobs were in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing has been flat since the spring in may. construction employment has also changed little. mining employment up little. construction manufacturing is not what happened to all of those shovel-ready jobs. >> i can only tell you what the trends were. you correctly summarized the payroll trends. >> there were weaknesses in capacity. the drilling moratorium was put in place hastily. we have shallow water exploration and drilling moratoriums that continue because permits have not been granted to get those workers back to work. drilling permits are not being granted. they are continuing to lose energy jobs. i think it was around 2000 jobs. >> i should have something a little more detailed. in mining, we gained about 4000 jobs overall. mining of all sorts, oil and gas extraction, eccentric. -- extraction, etc. support activiti

mr. brady? >> everyone in the room under 28 sat up straight.rity age will have to be adjusted at some point. construction and manufacturing are part of our economy. the most jobs were in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing has been flat since the spring in may. construction employment has also changed little. mining employment up little. construction manufacturing is not what happened to all of those shovel-ready jobs. >> i can only tell you what the trends were. you correctly summarized the payroll trends. >> there were weaknesses in capacity. the drilling moratorium was put in place hastily. we have shallow water exploration and drilling moratoriums that continue because permits have not been granted to get those workers back to work. drilling permits are not being granted. they are continuing to lose energy jobs. i think it was around 2000 jobs. >> i should have something a little more detailed. in mining, we gained about 4000 jobs overall. mining of all sorts, oil and gas extraction, eccentric. -- extraction, etc. support activiti

and mr. brady. my suggestion would be to raise increaset you would the taxes. in other words, i think that $250,000 does cost jobs in this economy. but if you start raising the taxes on people making $1 million, a lot of people could stomach that a lot better. one of the reasons is, i've been trying to pay attention to what the debt commission was doing. somebody made the point that they were doing -- or one of the suggestions was going to actually cause more jobs to go offshore because they would have more tax benefits in offshore jobs. whenever i make a phone call to a business, more likely than not, i get someone on the other end why cannot understand because they are usually somebody from india and the cadence that they speak with makes it hard for me and they speak quickly. i have to ask them to repeat everything that they are saying. guest: i'm like you, judy, i have been disappointed in this congress, and frankly, the white house. they have been pushing tax increases that would have forced companies to outsource, make us less competitive abroad on the wo

mr. marine >> then, kevin brady on expiring tax cuts.dak consent of the information technology and innovation foundation discusses new technology and the economy. each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the u.s. house will decide whether to censure new york congressman charles rangel for financial and fund raising misconduct. the chamber could choose a lighter punishment of a reprimand. watch live gavel-to-gavel house coverage on c-span. >> we saw again this week the organization wikileaks release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents which threaten to undercut american foreign policy as well as national security. and the person who has been accused for releasing this information is an american p.f.c. who is now facing charges up to 50 years in prison. these charges are too lenient because this p.f.c. has committed treason. i think that wikileaks and its founder should be facing criminal charges and his website, which he uses to aid and abet our terrorist enemies should be shut down. attorney general eric holder held a press confer

mr. brady. well yom >> thank you, i'll be brief. here on the ranking member. i'm here to tut the spending to cover the cost of this bill small businesses when they are trying to add jobs which seniors live on bringing the death tax back where we work the whole life and have ub kel sam take everything they've earned is wro wrong has support. the national tax union and other leaders within the conservative movement. there is a real concern. bringing back the death tax. it will impose the second highest death tax rate and con if is indicateses the hard work. that amendment is imposed by the planning. it includes your neighbor family farms and grocery stores. newspapers, auto deerls. local dolors and contractors. i urge its defeat. >> i believe this bill should be paid for. we have several leading supporters here to having their amendment n this bill. this takes the recommendations of the commission and puts them into place to eliminate wasteful spending in the bum et. p just political rhetoric but i am trying to put this in perspective. i don't know many people w